Gen/Sex
The Gender and Sexuality Reading Group (Gen/Sex) at Penn provides a regular forum for discussions related to gender, sexuality, feminism, queer theory, and their intersections with other fields. The group convenes several times per semester to discuss readings and provides a space for graduate students and faculty in and outside the Penn community to present works-in-progress. Invited speakers in past years have included Carrie Rentschler, Michael Trask, José Muñoz, Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus, and Jordana Rosenberg. The Gender and Sexuality Reading Group recently helped organize Queer Method, a conference that explored queer studies' inter- and anti-disciplinary impulses and methodological innovations, and asked what the tangible parameters of a queer methodology might be. Queer Method featured talks by Alison Bechdel and a host of scholars in the field. The Gen/Sex coordinators for the 2021–2022 academic year are Rosed Serrano (rns@sas.upenn.edu) and Liz Rose (lizrose@sas.upenn.edu). Please contact us with any questions or to be added to the listserv.
Past Events
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Jess Shollenberger WIP
"Rose Rocks, or Maybe Rock Roses: Elizabeth Bishop's Passion for Accuracy"October 9, 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
"Welcome Back Meeting and Discussion of Victor Mendoza’s Metroimperial Intimacies (introduction)"
October 3, 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Conversation with Dr. Ania Loomba and Dr. Melissa Sanchez on "Studying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Earlier Periods: Lessons, Limits, and Intersections"
September 27, 2017 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Erica Kaufman, “Queer Pedagogy.”
April 27, 2017 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm -
Laura Frost “A Century of Female Orgasm.”
April 20, 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
WIP w/ Eleni Palis (Penn English) - "Quotation and Authorship: The Cinephilic and Critical Interventions of the Auteur"
April 7, 2017 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm -
Talk by Bobby Benedicto (Art History & Communication Studies, McGill) — "Fatal Sex: On Gay Narcissism, Racial Violence, and the Death of Suicide"
March 28, 2017 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm -
Melissa Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania)
March 14, 2017 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Julia Bloch WIP: “'Womb as Plot': Conceptive Risk and Reproductive Time in Contemporary Poetry"
March 2, 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Queer Internet Studies Workshop
February 17, 2017 (All day)